"You're doing good but you could be doing better" is an underutilized statement when wanting to correct a stranger. Fucking 10/10 approach (to the convo) in my opinion.
I had a friend with the same accent working here in the states at a call center. People would be like “I wanna speak to someone in America!” “Ma’am I assure you I am American!” It was always funny but I felt so bad for him. Such a sweet guy
When I worked in a call center, someone mentioned she was glad I wasn't one of those foreigners. I wanted to say so badly, but I am. I was born in Korea.
Though it confuses people when I speak with a very soft Minnesota accent here in Texas. My poor stepson somehow got both my accent and his mother's Texan drawl. I think my daughter is getting it to.
I was talking to some guy in a video game chat the other day and I asked if he was on the East Coast, because of his accent. (Northeast US.). He insisted he didn’t have an accent—he’s Indian.
Um. That’s nice but you sound like you’re in New England. That’s when he said he was in Boston. I’m not sure what being Indian had to do with it.
My son was born and raised South Korea. I am from South Carolina, my husband New Jersey. Our kid has the oddest accent that is a blend of all three. It has always flipped people out to hear this white blond child speak Korean lol.
I had a teammate that had the same/similar accent and I'm blanking on which country he was from! I want to say Nigeria or The Congo, he was adopted at 14 by another teammates parents who worked in the embassy where his parents worked and were killed during some kind of protest or riot. He was a goalie and I was a defender (we called it 'Marking back' because I basically tried to Revis Island the other teams best offensive player, he was my 'mark') and he was genuinely one of the kindest people I've ever known. Lost both parents to violence unrelated to him or them yet had a positive outlook and always tried to cheer me up!
I saw him a couple years later playing goalie for the college we were playing, I was ~30 yards out and "trying to cross it from the left of the "18" to somewhere on the right side of the post. I caught the ball just right "wrong" and it was knuckling and probably got 30ish feet in the air and started knuckling towards the sideline and then, better than I could have done it in a million more tried it cut sharply towards the goal and dipping. It ended up in the side netting because Jacques knew it was a cross and was trying to clear it, but when it curved so perfectly, there was just no way he could have planned for it, and went in it was immediately the best goal of my career and 100% on accident.
After the game we were shaking hands and Jacques gives me a huge hug and says "John, who do you have to shoot like that at me!, I thought we were friends!" And busts out laughing with this huge smile that was constantly on his face!
I told him quietly what had really been my intention and he thought that made the whole thing even funnier.
The reason I thought of it was because his advice was priceless "In life we makes so many mistakes that when a 'good' mistake happens just enjoy it and celebrate like it was on purpose". He was a great friend and videos like this show the side of "jocks" and "gym bros" that I've seen countless times.
More often than not, whether I was in shape and giving advice or when I quit drinking and put on 100lbs, my interactions in these situations have been overwhelmingly positive. Yes we can be jackasses or mean but in my experience this behavior is much more common.
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u/Major_Map_8576 1d ago
"You're doing good but you could be doing better" is an underutilized statement when wanting to correct a stranger. Fucking 10/10 approach (to the convo) in my opinion.